Artist Quotes · Page 55

“The isms go, the ist dies, art remains”

— Vladimir Nabokov

The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.

— Kim Weston

I feel every artist has a certain amount of fan following.

— Karishma Tanna

I'm interested in making art that is available to everybody.

— Rostam Batmanglij

We have our brush and colors - paint Paradise and in we go.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

— Charles Baudelaire

The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The greatest scientists are artists as well.

— Albert Einstein

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

— Walt Whitman

I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to…

— Morris Graves

The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence.

— Walter J. Phillips

“I paint the darkness and the silence, You see them as stars and poetry.”

— Jenim Dibie

It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.

— Norman Rockwell

Subodh Gupta works because his artistic vocabulary is firmly rooted in the vernacular of everyday India.

— David Linley

Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.

— Oscar Wilde

Important artists are innovators whose work changes the practices of their successors.

— David Galenson

To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just…

— Viggo Mortensen

I think there's a great strength in having the courage and also having the support to do what you want to do…

— Dave Gahan

I don't see myself as an artist. I work with artists and collaborate with them, but then it becomes graphic design. It's…

— Vaughan Oliver

My painting technique has not changed that much over time, although perhaps I am painting tighter and with more detail, in spite…

— Mark Ryden

I was making my work as transparent as possible, without equivocations, without calling attention to itself, without apology. There's a lot of…

— Raymond Pettibon

When I think about a Chicago sound, I think about the Great Migration from the South. Many of Chicago's black artists are…

— Rhymefest

In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the…

— Kit Williams

“When I started to draw, most of my influences were from other painters and illustrators, so I was drawing landscape at second…

— Alan Lee

Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.

— Oprah Winfrey

Allow the artist to finish the piece of work before you critique it.

— Meshell Ndegeocello

“I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”

— Frida Kahlo

It would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I'm in this whole flow of doing certain art pieces without commerce.

— Jada Pinkett Smith

Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.

— Austin O'Malley

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

— Sol LeWitt

Art is life, life is art - the question is what came first?

— Lady Gaga

I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art.

— Andre Benjamin

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus.

— William Blake

One must be of one's time and paint what one sees.

— Edouard Manet

Chefs work with food, artists with oil paint, programmers with code.

— Steve Lohr

I don't like watching people work if they're making art.

— David Duchovny

My song is going to need dope lyrics to lure the honeys in!

— Ramandeep Singh

A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.

— Robert Stack

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

— Edvard Munch